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Yup'ik Eskimo Grant Kashatok speaks about his life on ice in Newtok, Alaska

By Stephen Chittenden
BBC News, Newtok, Alaska

The number of Eskimo words for snow has long been a point of debate.

In the Yup'ik Eskimo Dictionary published by the Native Language Centre at the
University of Alaska, and found in schools throughout Alaska's Yukon Delta,
there are 37 ways of referring to it.

When snow falls from the sky, an Eskimo can say "it's snowing" in four different
ways: aniu, cellallir, ganir or qanunge.

Once the snow is on the ground, things can get more complicated. Light snow is
kannevvluk, soft and deep snow is muruaneq and drifting snow is called natquik.

Crusted snow, corniced snow and fresh snow all have their own word too.

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